Drama Terms/Shakespeare

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A long, uninterrupted speech given by a character while other characters remain on stage.

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Monologue

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A story/play that ends UNHAPPILY.

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Tragedy

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A play on words that is meant to be funny.

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Pun

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When a character says something short to the audience or another character that the rest of the characters on stage DO NOT hear.

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Aside

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Personality trait of the main character in a tragedy that leads to his/her downfall:

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Tragic Flaw

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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter:

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Blank Verse

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Instructions in the text of a play that indicate the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.

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Stage Directions

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Shakespeare often wrote in _____, which is a line of poetry containing 10 syllables that alternate unstressed and stressed syllables.

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Iambic Pentameter

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A long speech in which a character who is onstage ALONE expresses his or her thoughts aloud:

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Soliloquy

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True or False: Boys/Men played the women's parts in plays during Shakespeare's time

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True